What can we expect from our national-security state? Cover for "certain" internal political strategies, as well as "special protections" for...um...the Environmental Protection Agency employees. Those rubber stamps seems to find their way into the darndest places.

America founded for peace? That is a nonsensical statement and in its historical context simply not true. From the beginning of the constitutional republic until the end of the Napoleonic Wars the US was either formally or informally involved in foreign wars about a third of the time. From the Waterloo to the Marne the US was the most war like nation in the West spending more time in armed conflict than all of Europe. That excludes the Indian Wars. Those militaristic Prussians spend a grand total of 6 months in the entire century in armed conflict versus about 9 years for the US. And of course the 20th Century found us involved in every major conflict. Another historically ignorant statement you hear is something about perpetual war. With exception of the 19th Century Europe has been pretty much been in a perpetual war from the fall of the Western Empire.

No nation is founded for peace. One of the primary purposes of the Nation state is to go to war to protect its interests.

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